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This chapter introduces the range of socio-technical systems and their interest for system engineers. It reiterates the need to include human focused data at the system architecting stage, in contrast to the traditional practice of leaving the human-system design for the final stages of system development. It notes the benefits of augmenting frameworks with the Human Viewpoint and the opportunity to improve system performance by capturing the contributions of the human component. The chapter details the Human Views as they were originally designed as well as the modifications to the views over time. The Human Viewpoint is an integrated viewpoint, with associations to both the Operational and System Viewpoints.
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There is also a “Human View for MoDAF” (the United Kingdom’s Ministry of Defence Architecture Framework) which is similar to the Human Viewpoint, but not identical.
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Handley, H.A.H. (2019). A Socio-technical Architecture. In: The Human Viewpoint for System Architectures. Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, vol 35. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-11629-3_4
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